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Offline dubber36

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dubbers pug detail
« on: 30 July 2009, 20:38 »
Not a Golf I know, but this is what I did last weekend.

With the weekend to myself, I was going to take the opportunity to get the old Pug up together once and for all. I know it's not one of my dubs, but I thought I'd share it with you anyway.

This is how it looked at 8:00am this morning. Ready for a good wash.



Closer inspection shows the poor contition of the paint. Lots if fine scratches, especially round the door handles.







I'm not really sure why the rear lights look like they do in this pic  :?

Anyhow, out with the AG shampoo, megs mf wash mit and of course, 2 buckets



To your average person, this would do, but not the likes of us eh?



Swirls and sratches a plenty



So it was a case old out with the old,



and in with the new.........er (so to speak)



Ready for the next stage. Megs clay with 50-50 diluted speed detailer as a lube



It was fairly clean, and the clay did not have to get much crap off, but it gave a nice smooth surface ready for the business side of things.

Fire up the Porter Cable DA, and do 2 passes of Poorboys SSR2 applied using a Sonus Green grooved polishing pad.



This was followed by a coat of good old SRP again applied with the machine using a Sonus Blue softer pad.



To finish off, I used my AG High Def Wax applied by hand with a foam applicator pad, and buffed with a mf cloth.



I didn't think the results were too shabby



Even got this ugly tw@ to take a picture for me



Due to the lack of space in the garage, I completed one section at a time, from clay to wax. However, I'd finished the o/s and realised that I hadn't done the roof :roll:  So I covered up the sides of the car with an old duvet cover so that I could lean over to reach the roof without making contact with the car.



I moved it outside so to check on the results before parking it on the other side of the garage to work on the n/s. I don't think it came up too bad.











Red Mk6 gone replaced with a white Mk7 which has gone too. Green Mk2 here to stay.

Offline Guy

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Re: dubbers pug detail
« Reply #1 on: 30 July 2009, 21:12 »
worthy of a thread of its own this one :afro:


Good work there Dubber,  your car looks spot on !!  congrats

And wow Dubber, awesome post  :smiley:
« Last Edit: 30 July 2009, 21:14 by Guy »

Offline northeast_gti-t

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Re: dubbers pug detail
« Reply #2 on: 30 July 2009, 23:32 »
Even tho its not a dub must say thats mighty impressive work :afro: the pug looks 100 times better now defo worth the time and effort spot on  :cool:
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Offline Dan J

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Re: dubbers pug detail
« Reply #3 on: 05 August 2009, 00:53 »
im impressed, good job dude
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Re: dubbers pug detail
« Reply #4 on: 08 August 2009, 11:15 »
nice one  :cool:

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